Parameter: fate

Dataset: 
coral colony size
Parameter: 
No BCO-DMO term
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 no_bcodmo_term
Short Description:
 No BCO-DMO term
Official Name:
 no_bcodmo_term
No Data Value:
Description:
 

An association with a community-wide standard parameter has not yet been made.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
fate
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

code describing colony activity over previous year:
D = death;
I = fission (one colony splits into two or more colonies);
M = fission and fusion (one colony undergoes both fission and fusion in one year);
N = new (code given to the measurement of a colony in the first year of the project);
R = recruit (new; small colony); S = survival (colony persists from year t to t+1);
U = fusion (two physiologically distinct colonies merge into a single colony and take the name of the larger colony);
X = phoenix (colony was present in year t-1; not visible in year t; but reappeared in year t+1)